OpenSUSE 12.2 has been released. Chock full of features and speed-ups, this latest version of OpenSUSE has embraced GRUB2, Plymouth, and has taken the first steps in the direction of a revised and simplified UNIX file system hierarchy.

The main features of OpenSUSE 12.2 are as follows -

Linux kernel 3.4 - has a faster storage layer to prevent blocking during large transfers.

openSUSE Tumbleweed users who have a proper setup don't have to do anything special to move to openSUSE 12.2 as the project provides a rolling updates version of openSUSE containing the latest stable versions of all software instead of relying on rigid periodic release cycles.